Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolook
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Disques Dreyfus – FDM 18118 |
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Vinyl
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Electronic |
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Ambient |
Tracklist
| A1 | Ethnicolor | 11:41 | |
| A2 | Diva | 7:33 | |
| B1 | Zoolook | 3:50 | |
| B2 | Wooloomooloo | 3:20 | |
| B3 | Zoolookologie | 4:20 | |
| B4 | Blah-Blah Cafe | 3:22 | |
| B5 | Ethnicolor II | 3:52 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Clinton Recording Studio
- Mixed At – Croissy Studio
- Pressed By – MPO
- Lacquer Cut At – Tape One
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Disques Dreyfus
- Copyright © – Disques Dreyfus
- Published By – Jean-Michel Jarre
- Published By – Francis Dreyfus Music
- Distributed By – CBS
Credits
- Art Direction [Album Cover] – Mark Fisher (5)
- Artwork [Images Processed At] – Imagine, London
- Bass – Marcus Miller
- Composed By, Producer, Technician [Ethnic Vocals Processed By], Keyboards, Electronics [Electronic Devices] – Jean-Michel Jarre
- Copyist – Mark Suozzo
- Design [Album Cover] – Kate Hepburn
- Design [Assisted By] – Fiona Doulton
- Drums – Yogi Horton
- Engineer [Mixing] – David Lord
- Engineer [Recording] – Daniel Lazerus
- Guitar [Additional] – Ira Siegel
- Guitar, Effects – Adrian Belew
- Keyboards [Additional] – Frederic Rousseau*
- Lacquer Cut By – Bilbo (3)
- Mixed By – Rene Ameline* (tracks: B1)
- Producer [Assisted By] – Pierre Mourey
- Producer [Production Assistant] – Frederick Rousseau*
- Research [Ethnologist] – Xavier Bellenger
- Tape Op – Maureen A. Thompson*
Notes
Released with a pink picture inner sleeve
Some copies come with the "Prix De L'Académie Du Disque Français" sticker on front cover (see pictures)
Cover:
Mixed on Sony PCM 1610 at Croissy Studio, .
Recorded at Klinton Studio, New York.[Clinton Recording Studio in the database]
℗ © 1984 Disques Dreyfus
Imprimé en
Inner sleeve:
Laurie Anderson & Marcus Miller appear courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Adrian Belew appears courtesy of EG Records.
The human voices heard on this album were created from recordings of speech and song. The original recordings were made in the following languages: Aboroginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chad, Chinese, English, Eskimo, French, Gabonese, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Madagascan, Malayan, Pigmy, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan, Turkish. They were edited and transformed using different electronic devices.
Keyboards and electronic devices: Fairlight CMI, Emulator, Moog 55, ARP 2600, DX7, Prophet V, OBXA, AMS, Simmons SDS V, Matrisequencer, AKS, EMS Vocoder, Eminent, Doctor Click, Linn 1, Linn 2.
Label side B:
Fabriqué en
Runout groove:
All runouts are hand-etched.
Incidental info:
Mastered at Tape One, London, UK
Pressed at MPO, Averton,
Three similar versions are known:
Release 5405367 with
- white text "Fabriqué en " bottom center of back cover
Release 3719691 with
- white text "Fabriqué en " bottom center of back cover
- black text "Imprimé en " bottom left of back cover
This release with
- black text "Imprimé en " bottom left of back cover
Some copies come with the "Prix De L'Académie Du Disque Français" sticker on front cover (see pictures)
Cover:
Mixed on Sony PCM 1610 at Croissy Studio, .
Recorded at Klinton Studio, New York.[Clinton Recording Studio in the database]
℗ © 1984 Disques Dreyfus
Imprimé en
Inner sleeve:
Laurie Anderson & Marcus Miller appear courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Adrian Belew appears courtesy of EG Records.
The human voices heard on this album were created from recordings of speech and song. The original recordings were made in the following languages: Aboroginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chad, Chinese, English, Eskimo, French, Gabonese, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Madagascan, Malayan, Pigmy, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan, Turkish. They were edited and transformed using different electronic devices.
Keyboards and electronic devices: Fairlight CMI, Emulator, Moog 55, ARP 2600, DX7, Prophet V, OBXA, AMS, Simmons SDS V, Matrisequencer, AKS, EMS Vocoder, Eminent, Doctor Click, Linn 1, Linn 2.
Label side B:
Fabriqué en
Runout groove:
All runouts are hand-etched.
Incidental info:
Mastered at Tape One, London, UK
Pressed at MPO, Averton,
Three similar versions are known:
Release 5405367 with
- white text "Fabriqué en " bottom center of back cover
Release 3719691 with
- white text "Fabriqué en " bottom center of back cover
- black text "Imprimé en " bottom left of back cover
This release with
- black text "Imprimé en " bottom left of back cover
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Price Code: CB 311
- Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): MPO FDM 18118 A3 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): MPO FDM 18118 B3 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): MPO FDM 18118 A4 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): MPO FDM 18118 B4 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): MPO FDM 18118 A4 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): MPO FDM 18118 B3 BILBO.TAPE One.LONDON
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| Zoolook (LP, Album) | Disques Dreyfus | 823 763-1 | Netherlands | 1984 | |||
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Zoolook (LP, Album) | Disques Dreyfus | POLH 15, 823 763-1 | UK | 1984 | ||
| Zoolook (LP, Album, Stereo) | Polydor | 823 763-1 | 1984 | ||||
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Zoolook (LP, Album, Stereo) | Disques Dreyfus | 823 763-1 | Portugal | 1984 | ||
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Zoolook (LP, Album) | Polydor | 823 763-1 | Spain | 1984 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Edited 3 months agoI still can't believe how modern this sounds. If dubstep drums were added to track 1, it could easily for Flying Lotus. If the last track on side B was set to a House Music beat it would as The Field. -
Happy 40th year to Zoolook and Jean Michel Jarre was an perfect location for Jelling Festivalen
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This is a very contemporary sounding album for the time, but it somehow still clicks and it’s actually been one of my most listened to records in Jarre’s entire discography. Maybe it’s because of the session musicians like Miller, Belew, and Anderson that makes it stand out more?
For the pressing itself, this is a superb example of an early digital recording done right on vinyl. “Diva” has been in my speaker phasing testing list because when phased correctly, you should hear Laurie’s vocal samples from the left, (ghost) center, and right channels easily. -
Un des albums les plus déroutants mais l'un des plus travaillés de Jean-Michel Jarre, 18 mois de travail ont été nécessaires pour réaliser cet album
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Laurie Anderson, who does the main vocals on the track "Zoolook", is omitted above from the Credits listing. -
A Zoo of Linguistic Creatures.
A brilliant album of electronic/world music.
Built upon samples of talking and singing in 25 languages spanning the Earth:
Aboriginal, Arabic, Hungarian, Japanese, Turkish, Pygmy, Sioux, Quechua, etc
Zoolook presents a cross between Musique Concrete, World Music & Synthpop.
Featuring the brilliant Adrian Belew (King Crimson veteran and artist in his own right)
and Laurie Anderson (experimental storyteller, filmmaker, and performance artist whose
voice can be heard on "Diva"), the music shifts between lush and discordant. Brilliant!!
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An easy piece of his discography to overlook, but one worth digesting. I revisited this one recently and found there was a lot more to it than I ed -- especially on the B side. -
New mastering from the original analog tapes by Dave Dadwater for Yakuda Audio 2014. Original track list from 1984, no remix. -
I love this album. It is still fresh and if released today would still be ahead of it's time.My favourite pressing has always been the original, having purchased the tape cassette as a youngster from our price music, Canterbury around 1986. I would love an original pressing CD, but I understand they was withdrawn from sale not long after release.They are about but at a cost.
It's an album best listened to as a whole and when you can concentrate on it. The album in it's early state had a purity and continuity that Jarre intended. Remix versions of Zoolook & Zoolookologie, although not a million miles away from the originals, upset that purity and continuity for me.The same goes for the track listing.
Still, if there was ever an album of the future, this would be it! -
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